Thanks David, Dain, Aaron and to the companies that have helped out...
an outstanding donation to the community!
Do you have any thoughts on doing regular (e.g. once a day or week)
performance testing that may pick up any performance regressions
introduced and store results in a database for comparisons with previous
builds.
I could also picture the running of some long running tests that could
expose memory leaks or large changes in memory footprint (that the
current unit tests don't find).
Thanks again!
John
David Blevins wrote:
Since testing/building is a really hard thing in Geronimo and the large
community of projects surrounding it, Dain and I decided it was time to
take action and put our own $$ on the table to help. Projects like
Geronimo, OpenEJB and ActiveMQ have provided us with so much
opportunity, we saw this as a way to give back on a very personal
level. We went out and purchased four servers on our own dime that we
are dedicating to all the projects that comprise Geronimo. The focus
is on providing the large community of committers on the various
projects the resources to test and build and keep the Geronimo
ecosystem running.
We hope these four machines will be the start of something bigger.
When I close my eyes and think big, I see a large federation consisting
of smaller groups of machines from individuals and companies sharing
some common building/testing infrastructure, open to and co-maintained
by members of the community projects, building all our code all the
time and testing it on every variety of OS, VM and Database imaginable....
We're not there yet. Baby steps. To date I've written a lot of
scripts to do builds, nightly tests with 6 MB emails that tick people
off, unstable builds, official releases, publish jars ... you name it.
Keeping that kind of stuff running a real trick. Other people have
cobbled up some stuff for themselves as well. For the immediate
time-frame, I hope that we can at least use these machines to keep our
various projects built on a regular basis with jars published using
tools we setup and maintain as a community. We sure need it, releases
are too painful.
With that said, meet the family:
stan.gbuild.org
kyle.gbuild.org
kenny.gbuild.org
cartman.build.org
Stan and Kenny are mine, Kyle and Cartman are Dain's. I picked the
domain cause it sounded fun and the machine names for the same reason.
All four boxes are Pentium Dual Core 830s (3.0GHz/2X1MB Cache, 800MHz
FSB), with 2GB RAM and 80GB drives. Accounts available to committers
of Geronimo, OpenEJB, ActiveMQ, ActiveIO and other Geronimo-related
projects upon request.
I've setup a Continuum install and have some of the projects running in
it now:
http://ci.gbuild.org/continuum/servlet/continuum
Huge thanks are in order:
- Dain Sundstrom for not even flinching when the idea when from "hey
lets buy a box" to "hey let's buy four boxes."
- Simula Labs (http://www.simulalabs.com/) for donating hosting for
the four boxes.
- Mergere (http://www.mergere.com/) for helping me setup Continuum
to run our builds.
Immediate needs:
- Some help setting up LDAP for user/group accounts across the four
boxes.
- Help adding more projects to continuum
- Help converting existing projects in continuum to not be "shell
projects" in continuum's eyes.
- Help getting an unstable build script going again.
- Converting anything bash-like to jelly or something m2 supported.
- More boxes?
- Anything you can think of....
-David
